| Noun | 1. | out - (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"failure - an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test" putout - an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout); "the first baseman made 15 putouts" strikeout - an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes baseball, baseball game, ball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empy lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | |
| Verb | 1. | out - to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year"disclose, divulge, let on, let out, reveal, expose, give away, impart, discover, bring out, break - make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" | |
| 2. | out - reveal somebody else's homosexuality; "This actor was outed last week"disclose, divulge, let on, let out, reveal, expose, give away, impart, discover, bring out, break - make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" | |
| 3. | out - be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out" | |
| Adj. | 1. | out - not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out"baseball, baseball game, ball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empy lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" safe - having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball" | |
| 2. | out - of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"dead - not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" | |
| 3. | out - not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"impossible - not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation" | |
| 4. | out - out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out"unsuccessful - not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome | |
| 5. | out - excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject" | |
| 6. | out - directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket"outgoing - going out or away or of the past; "an outgoing steamship"; "the outgoing president" | |
| 7. | out - no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind" | |
| 8. | out - outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull"exterior - situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; "an exterior scene"; "exterior grade plywood"; "exterior paints" | |
| 9. | out - outer or outlying; "the out islands"outer - being on the outside or further from a center; "spent hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs" | |
| 10. | out - knocked unconscious by a heavy blowunconscious - not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" | |
| Adv. | 1. | out - outside of an enclosed space; "she is out"in - inside an enclosed space | |
| 2. | out - outward from a reference point; "he kicked his legs out" | |
| 3. | out - away from home; "they went out last night" | |
| 4. | out - from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets" | |